DAVID CROWE
FEBRUARY 12, 2014 12:00AM
TONY Abbott has signalled that personal benefits could be scaled back in the May budget by declaring that “everyone” had to live within their means, amid signs yesterday of tough measures to repair the nation’s finances.
As the government heralds the end of an “age of entitlement” in federal spending, the Prime Minister acknowledged that individual benefits would be under scrutiny just as much as those going to companies.